Abstract: Packages for sets of promotional or other articles (such as lottery tickets or coupons) which conceal information included on the articles, and methods of forming the packages, are disclosed. Embodiments of the package include even (or odd) numbers of integrated panels of equal size, pairs of which panels are separated by fold lines. A four-panel package may be folded along the first and third fold lines so that the inner face of each panel contacts the inner face of an adjacent panel. The package then may be folded along the second fold line so that the exposed outer faces of the remotest panels contact, thereby forming a package having the length and width of a single panel. Sets of tickets or articles equal to the number of panels (or multiples thereof) may then be formed simultaneously by creating areas in the folded package completely defined by lines of weakness.

Abstract: A convertible coupon is usable as a single primary coupon or as a plurality of secondary coupons that are attachable to selected items. The secondary coupons are separable portions of the primary coupon so use of any of them visibly destroys the integrity of the primary coupon to prevent fraud. Several preferred embodiments show various applications and ways of attaching the primary and secondary coupons to one another and to products.

Abstract: A process for preparing self-adhesive multilayered labels which comprises the steps of printing main and supplementary label messages on a label stock simultaneously by a label printer, cutting the label stock thus printed into halves, and then superimposing the halves of the label stock thus cut in a manner so that the face paper carrying the supplementary label message is releasably superimposed on and in alignment with the face paper carrying the main label message. After printing the main and supplementary label messages simultaneously in two parallel rows, the label stock is cut lengthwise into halves. One half of the label stock is peeled off its release paper and its face paper alone is forwarded on the conveyer line. The other half of the label stock is forwarded on the conveyer line together with its release paper.

Abstract: Laminated packaging material includes a corrugated inner ply, a paperboard outer ply having a detachable coupon portion outlined with a perforated die cut, an adhesive between facing surfaces of the outer ply and the corrugated inner ply for adhering the facing surfaces to one another, and an adhesion-preventing agent on the detachable coupon portion of the facing surface of the outer ply for preventing adhesion of the detachable coupon portion to the corrugated inner ply. The laminated packaging material may be manufactured according to a first sequence of steps wherein the adhesion preventing agent is applied to the detachable coupon before the detachable coupon is outlined with a perforated die cut, and the adhesive is applied only to the corrugated inner ply.

Abstract: An airline luggage tag and jacket therefor and method wherein a central claim check is removable leaving a generally U-shaped remainder, this U-shaped remainder having arm portions that are equipped with slits for capturing the remainder of the tag when the tag is looped around the handle of a piece of luggage, the check having transversely extending ears for insertion into slits in the jacket.

Abstract: A business form suitable for use as a packing list or invoice attached to the package, and having the portion which serves as a shipping label to which variable address information may be applied, is produced in a simple and effective manner. Label stock and a bond paper portion are glued together at an overlapping section. Tractor holes may be provided in the free edges of the label and bond portions to facilitate driving through a printer. An adhesive strip on a first face of the label stock and another adhesive strip on a second, opposite face of the bond portion, holds the sections of the form together when it is Z-folded (accordion folded). The release liner on the label stock is removed to apply the form onto a package. The first face of the form may be printed utilizing a non-impact printer, with variable information. The second face of the form may be printed with non-variable information at a manufacturing location.

Abstract: Sheets for use in correspondence which can be used for postcards, etc. are disclosed. The correspondence sheets consist of twice-folded sheet displaying information on the inside, clear resin films coated on the inside each-other-facing surfaces of the twice-folded sheet in a manner that they can hardly be peeled off, and a temporary adhesive layer which connects the each-other-facing clear resin films in a manner that they can be later peeled off and also the peeled surface thus formed has no tackiness. The sheets will be peeled off at the temporary adhesive layer by the receiver, and the peeled surface on each side after the unfolding is covered with clear resin film having no tackiness.

Abstract: A composite label affixable to a surface of an article comprising an adhesive-bearing base sheet for affixing the label to the article, a front sheet joined to the base sheet along its periphery and an enclosure placed in the pocket formed between the base and front sheets, wherein a tear line in the front sheet provides access to said pocket and to said enclosure; also, a carrier strip having such labels mounted thereon; also a labelled article having adhesively affixed thereto a composite label comprising a base sheet, a front sheet joined to the base sheet along its periphery and an enclosure placed in the pocket formed between the base and front sheets, wherein a tear line in the front sheet provides access to said pocket and to said enclosure.

Abstract: Carbon paper duplicating sheets, such as those used in credit-card transaction forms, are made easily destroyable after authorized use without hand-soiling by incorporating, into the tissue paper base of the carbon paper sheets, filament strands arranged in repetitively alternating angular relationship to the edges of, and throughout, the carbon paper sheets. Duplicating-ink-free areas are provided at opposite edges of each sheet so that it may be grasped between the thumb and fingers of each hand to render the used carbon paper shredded, uncopyable and therefore safely disposable. The addition of perforations in the paper base in selected areas may be made to enhance the easy destructibility of the duplicating sheets.

Abstract: A label to be affixed to a container is disclosed. The label includes a longitudinal strip divided into two or more panels by one or more transverse fold lines. An end panel of the strip forms a front cover for the remaining panel or panels when the remaining panel or panels is or are folded behind the front cover panel. The front cover panel has a folded edge defined by the fold line between the front cover panel and the adjacent panel and a free outer edge which is opposite the folded edge and extends beyond the remaining panel or panels of the strip when folded. The extending part of the front cover panel has one or more holes, a support web for the longitudinal strip and a layer of pressure sensitive self-adhesive material which is adhered by the self-adhesive surface thereof over the front cover panel.

Abstract: A game piece formed of a strip of sheet material folded into a packet containing a plurality of overlaying panels. First and second panels of equal dimensions are connected along a common end edge by a perforated line. The second and third panels are separated by a fold line. Two perforated lines are formed on opposite sides of the fold line. Additional perforated lines are formed along the longitudinal edges of the first, second and third panels, as well as the outer end edge of the first panel. The third panel is folded over the second panel and the first panel is folded over the third panel after adhesive has been applied to the peripheral edges adjacent the longitudinal perforations and end perforations on the first panel to secure the first, second and third panels together into a closed form. Tearing of the overlaying perforations enables the first, second and third panels, each of which bears advertising or promotional indicia to be completely separated from each other for individual use.

Abstract: A label for attachment to a product, the label including an integral sheet and envelope having a sheet portion such as a sheet of printed instructions, and an envelope portion for removably carrying the sheet portion, the sheet portion and envelope portion being both formed from a common single folded sheet. The sheet is divided into at least first and second parallel rows of three rectilinear panels each. The panels of the first row are separated from the corresponding panels of the second row by a fold line which extends transversely relative to side edges of the sheet, and a line of perforations which extends between and transversely relative to the side edges of the sheet across the second row of panels so as to separate the envelope portion and the sheet portion.

Abstract: A card for microfilm and the like including a core with a cut-out open at an edge thereof and front and back surfaces. Front and back transparent panels are bonded to the front and back core surfaces respectively in covering relation to the cut-out. An opaque security cover is removably secured to one of the front and back panels in covering relation over the cut-out. A pocket is formed by the cut-out between the front and back panels and is adapted to receive a microfilm segment readable through the front panel with the cover removed from the card. A method of forming the card includes the steps of heat laminating the front and back panels against the core front and back surfaces respectively with a microfilm segment and a spacer positioned in the pocket and removably securing the opaque cover to one of the front and back panels in covering relation over the cut-out.

Abstract: An adhesive label for a container includes an instruction pamphlet 10 enclosed in a cover 11 adhesively secured by its rear face to the front face of a backing sheet 12, the rear face of which is coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive and carries a removable protective sheet. The cover 11 includes a first flap 19 which initially overlies a second flap 20 and which has its end edge glued by adhesive 25 to the backing sheet 12. Two lines 26, 27 of perforations adjacent the line of adhesive 25 define between them a strip which can be torn out to provide access to the pamphlet 10. The pamphlet 10 can subsequently be re-enclosed by inserting a tongue 24 on the second flap 20 into a slit 30 in the first flap 19.

Abstract: A combined advertising and redeemable coupon device formed from a single printed sheet which is uniquely folded to provide an attractive one piece packet for displaying advertising indicia of the merchant. The body of the device is perforated to define a plurality of redeemable coupons which are hidden from view when the device is in a folded display configuration.

Abstract: A tear open tamper resistant game ticket assembly including a rear panel, a front panel, an intermediate panel and a ticket panel. The panels are cut from a single sheet of paper and attached to one another by fold lines so that the panels can be folded over one another into a multi-layered assembly with the ticket panel located between the front panel and the intermediate panel located between the front panel and the rear panel. The intermediate and ticket panels are narrower than the front and rear panels. The rear panel is adhered to the intermediate panel and to portions of the front panel on opposite sides of the intermediate panel when the panels are folded into their multi-layered assembly. Perforated lines are formed in the front and rear panels near the side edges thereof with the perforated lines located approximately in alignment with the side edges of the intermediate panel. A tear tab is formed by slit lines in the front panel and extends between the perforated panels on the side edges thereof.

Abstract: There are disclosed various embodiments of a composite web of pressure sensitive labels, method and apparatus for making such embodiments of the composite web, and method and apparatus by which a composite web of labels is advanced and by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise.